Box hedge following spline

[Matt Sugden]

Hi I wondered if anyone could give me some ideas to create a box hedge, or similar kind of hedging which could follow a spline. I'm assuming I'm gonna have to use the scatter command.

 

I want to do this so I can essentially create spline paths around the landscape and produce nice hedging which dynamically follows the terrain. Any ideas?

 

Cheers

[Matt Sugden]

well I've figured out a solution..... so in case anyone was wondering how I did it...

 

I created a short section of hedge, about 30cm or so, (by creating a basic truck and branches using spline modeling) then scatter a leaf plane over these sections. Once the section was created I then used the spacing command to run this section of hedge along the path.

[alrawli]

How about making the spline renderable and using the rectangular option? This should get you a hedge following the curves of the spline which you can add detail to by converting to a mesh.

[mattclinch]

or use the 'sweep' modifier and sweep a rectangle along a spline. like loft but better imo.

[Matt Sugden]

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

This was the kind of effect I have been trying to create, using a single small hedge, which I can map along the spline... I have found once it is mapped using the spacing tool (which seems to be excellent by the way) I can then attach them all together and add some noise to create some irregularity. I think this will be fine for what I want.

 

Cheers for the help though.

[SandmanNinja]

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

This was the kind of effect I have been trying to create, using a single small hedge, which I can map along the spline... I have found once it is mapped using the spacing tool (which seems to be excellent by the way) I can then attach them all together and add some noise to create some irregularity. I think this will be fine for what I want.

 

Cheers for the help though.

 

 

Thanks for sharing your solution.

 

I absolutely love the spacing tool!

 

Cheer